Eight research languages · One place to begin

Let a question lead you to a language.

A biblical passage. A manuscript tradition. A voice from Christian history. Find the world that draws you in, then make its letters and words less unfamiliar, one return at a time.

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I · Choose a beginning

Each language opens a shelf of history.

λόγος

Koine Greek

The New Testament and early Christian texts

Begin with Greek letters and core vocabulary. Bring that foundation to a grammar and the passages you want to study.

500 core words · 7 form-drill sets

Where it leads

Before ChristOld Testament, Second Temple, classical Greece

The Septuagint, translated in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC

New Testament & apostolic age1st–2nd centuries

The New Testament
1 Clement (c. 96), the Didache and the letters of Ignatius (d. c. 110)

Church fathers2nd–8th centuries

Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus (4th century)
Athanasius, the Cappadocian Fathers and John Chrysostom

Reformation16th–17th centuries

Erasmus’s printed Greek New Testament (1516)

These are horizons, not features. Scriptorium trains recognition of each script and its core vocabulary; reading any of these sources takes a grammar, a teacher and time with the texts.

II · All periods

Choose a language to see its sources.

Before ChristOld Testament, Second Temple, classical Greece

New Testament & apostolic age1st–2nd centuries

Church fathers2nd–8th centuries

Medieval8th–15th centuries

Reformation16th–17th centuries

TodayLiving use and modern scholarship

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Notice one word.

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